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To: TruthSetsUFree

Interesting paradox if Congress sends in US Marshalls to enforce the Congressional subpoena, GW sends in the Secret Service to protect the Attorney General and Jeb has to send in the Florida National Guard to take down the Pinellas County Sheriff and the local police.

Brothers Karamazov?


928 posted on 03/28/2005 11:32:31 AM PST by sodpoodle (sparrows are underrated)
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Book review by Anonymous on The Brothers Karamazov: "As a Christian one of the fascinating aspects of the book for me was Dostoevsky's tremendous defence of Christian theism in the face of the growing atheism of his day. Without God/immortality/faith, etc, argues Dostoevsky, then we cannot speak in terms of good and evil and consequently all crime is not only permissible but perfectly reasonable. All morality, virtue, and love becomes meaningless. The fact that very few people take atheism to its logical conclusion is very telling for it shows that deep within the human heart there remains a vestige of awareness that we are made in the image of God and accountable to Him.
Dostoevsky's own faith was formed out of a long struggle of unbelief and doubt. I'm sure one of his great hopes for his readers is that once they had finished his book they would quickly pick up another book - the Bible - and discover the God, in the person of Jesus Christ, he so ably defends and commends."

To put previous comment in context.
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933 posted on 03/28/2005 11:38:06 AM PST by sodpoodle (sparrows are underrated)
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